Yes, but do we know if billg got his wish to make ACPI linked to Windows? In any case, it's been a great deal of work to implement ACPI for Linux, by a great many people. I do think ACPI assumes some things about the OS that Windows had at the time and Linux didn't (e.g. global device tree) but those were things that Linux needed to add at some point anyways. Regards -- Andy On 4/13/07, RusH <citizenr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px03020.zip "One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific. If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way Io avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we couid define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something relaled to this." -- Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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